election. one in three of the democrats nominees were women. in is a historic marker for a party, and as you can see, the voters liked it too. four new democratic women. on the republican side, for a series of reasons, the number of republican women in the senate has gone down by one. they had two retirements and one new candidate. i will continue to watch that, but i think the growing number of women in the senate is very important. reflected, by the way, the continuing number of women in the electorat. in 2008, something like 10 million were women who voted, and they gave president obama, i believe, a 13-point margin. i cannot say yet this morning what the time turnout will be in the election, but we know now that women have given president obama a 12-point margin. get a 12-point margin among the majority of the electorat, you're doing well. paying attention to the role of the women voters in this one, role of hispanic voters, role of young voters and their enthusiasm of the president, and th